Re: [BlindHandyMan] Audio Beacon

2009-05-01 Thread Betsy Whitney
Aloha all, Just a reminder about things that rely on power. During power outages, they don't work. I think best to have at least a battery backup, but like my current answering machine, which I curse often, the battery only retains my messages for 20 minutes. Betsy At 08:50 PM 4/30/2009, you wr

RE: [BlindHandyMan] electrical color and orientation

2009-05-01 Thread Michael Baldwin
Strange the water heater needed a 10-3. I haven't seen one that uses 120 v, so it should have only needed a 10-2. But hey, lots of stuff changes so fast it is hard to keep up with it. I guess it is possible that the water heater needed 2 240 v lines, one for each heating element, that would expl

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical color and orientation

2009-05-01 Thread Lenny McHugh
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2009-05-01 Thread blindhandyman
List guidelines. The topics that can be discussed on the Blind Handy Man list are as follows. Here is a direct quote from the beginning of every show, "building repairing or maintaining, all designed with the blind in mind". That can be your house, car, or swimming pool ETC. No matter if it

Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical color and orientation

2009-05-01 Thread Ron Yearns
It could have been multiple runs for different. Never saw it in a water heater, but I ddid see it for an electric furnance in a module home. Multiple runs of 6-3 with multiple circuit breakers. I would say 12-4 with ground in other than rubber cord would be a special order around here. Ron

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Audio Beacon

2009-05-01 Thread Bob Kennedy
Ed, Here is the ad from Woodcraft. It claims 50 feet but I do know mine works from farther than that. I do like the sounds of the one Jerry talked about using a cell phone too. It never fails, every time you need to start your dust collector you're on the other side of the shop. Our remote

RE: [BlindHandyMan] Audio Beacon

2009-05-01 Thread Tom Hodges
What line on the phone do you plug into it?? Also, how do you plug a phone into it if it's on the roof? Thanks, tom From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Richer Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 2:50 AM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subj

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Concreting Now Completed.

2009-05-01 Thread Dale Leavens
Ray, How did you form up the concrete? I was wondering too what you used for leveling the form (if anything)? My level device is pretty short for something that size. Do you include some sort of expansion joints or stress relief joints to keep a platform of that size from cracking up? Do you l

[BlindHandyMan] Drywall Screw Threads

2009-05-01 Thread Gil Laster
Over years I have collected different sizes of drywall screws and just now noticed that most have coarse threads while a few have fine threads including screws of the same style, material, and length. Can anyone explain the purpose or application for coarse threads verses fine threads? - Gil L

RE: [BlindHandyMan] Drywall Screw Threads

2009-05-01 Thread Michael Baldwin
Fine threads go in to steel framing members, and the course is for wood, but the fine thread work well on the wood to. At least that is what a drywaller person told me. I just buy a box of 1 and 1/4th for 1/2 drywall, of what ever is less expensive. Michael _ From: blindhandyman@yahoo

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Drywall Screw Threads

2009-05-01 Thread Dale Leavens
I don't know much about the difference in threads except that the coarser threads go into wood studs better and the finer threads hold better in steel studs. There may well be other properties. - Original Message - From: Gil Laster To: Blind Handyman Sent: Friday, May 01, 20

RE: [BlindHandyMan] Concreting Now Completed.

2009-05-01 Thread Ray Boyce
Hi Dale There was forming at the back or rear of the shed and down both sides and at the front. There is an expansion joint in the middle and one at the front before the apron. We do not need any packing under the slab but reinforcing mesh right through. The screed was a piece of steel channel